Street Art in Toronto

A Digital Representation of Ephemeral Art in the City


About this Project

This project was originally created by Allie Landy for INF1321: Representing, Documenting, and Accessing the Cultural Record at the University of Toronto in March 2024.

Special thank you to all the team members who contributed images and metadata for this project!

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A butterfly surrounded by a brightly coloured graffiti.
Butterfly
A brightly printed mural featuring the phrases "Queer & Now" twice, "It Takes a Village," "Keep On Keeping On," and "Take Care"
Queer & Now
A mural painted on the side of a building featuring tall green grass, the moon and individuals doing a range of activities including giving birth, holding a baby, and holding up pennants with the phrase "Love Makes" and "Community"
Love Makes Community
A mural of a black man with headphones and the green plant growing on the wall represents his hair with the words "Black Lives Matter" written in black
Black Lives Matter Mural
A mural painted on two windows featuring two purple trees, a sleeping fox, ans two clothed anthropmorphic rabbits hugging
Keep Eachother Safe
A painted mural on an old storefront featuring a yellow naked woman with purple hair blowing the word "power" onto multi-coloured flames
Power

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Technical Credits - CollectionBuilder

This digital collection is built with CollectionBuilder, an open source framework for creating digital collection and exhibit websites that is developed by faculty librarians at the University of Idaho Library following the Lib-Static methodology.

Using the CollectionBuilder-CSV template and the static website generator Jekyll, this project creates an engaging interface to explore driven by metadata.

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